Walter Wanderley - Summer Samba (1966)

Summer Samba (also known as So Nice or its original Portuguese title, "Samba de Verão") is a 1966 bossa nova song by Brazilian composer Marcos Valle, with English-language lyrics by Norman Gimbel; the original Portuguese lyrics came from Paulo Sérgio Valle, brother to the composer.

The song was first popularized by the Walter Wanderley Trio in 1966 — the album Rain Forest on which it was issued reached platinum status in 1970 — also reaching the U.S."Easy Listening" chart in versions by Johnny Mathis, Vikki Carr, and Connie Francis during that same year. In fact, at least one source claims that three different versions were on the Billboard charts at the same time in 1966. Allmusic has said of Wanderley's version, "His recording ... is regarded as perhaps a more definitive bossa tune than "Girl From Ipanema." Wanderley's version was the biggest seller in the U.S., reaching #26 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, (#3 on the Easy Listening chart) , and is still a favourite on Adult Standards radio stations.

Other notable versions include those by Astrud Gilberto and by Bebel Gilberto, both of which have been used in several television programs and in widely broadcast TV advertisements. As of the year 2000, the song had been recorded by more than 180 different artists worldwide.

The song was covered by Emma Bunton in 2004 and was released as a b-side on the commercial CD single to her single "Crickets Sing For Anamaria" (also written by Marcos Valle), taken from her critically acclaimed sophomore album, Free Me.

The song appears in the film Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me as well as Click. It also is a major theme in the game Destroy All Humans!, largely as an intentional music joke as the video game is set in 1957, nine years before the song's release.

Artist - Walter Wanderley
Song - Summer Samba
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[Bacmaster]

This very strange! If you play my video, one shows the artist is "Billy May"

and then it shows the artist is "Walter Wanderley"???

[paulj0557]

@Bacmaster Of course it's Walter, nobody could play like him. Disregard the Billy May next to the mic, probably just another attempt from youtube to hustle theIrtunes...everyone knows real vinyl is better!

[Bacmaster]

@paulj0557 You know, I'll be the first to admit I'm wrong, however my brother use to play this over and over in the 1960,s and I was sure I was right. Thank you for ending this mystery. Now you could go to my newest channel "thebacmaster".

[ThePalacemusic]

Fantastic Organ...

[anitashelby]

Ahhh Very Lovely Intrumental ! Soo Relaxing ! Wonderful Vid As Well ! 5*s Thankyou soo much....Anita..

[The13thproductions]

check it out our channel for more Walter Wanderley !!

[Chehj1]

Fantàstic music!!!

[ThatAllSeeingEye]

Destroy all humans made me look for this

[mrlopez2681]

this is Billy May "cut & paste" rendition of Wanderley's rendition of "Summer Samba".

[justindelgado93]

And yeah I remembered this from destroy all humans took me a day to find this lol

[paulj0557]

@Doktorerna No Walter was his own creation that inspired the Billy May's of the world. True genius!

[Doktorerna]

@decatlon14

It's Billy May.